BIGD in association with the General Economics Division (GED), Ministry of Planning organized a training on Implementation of National Plans and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Project Identification and Design, held on March 11, 2017 at BRAC CDM. The prime objective of the training program was to enhance the capacity of the government officials so that they can use the plan effectively to identify and design a project as the Government is very keen to render its long term plan and global commitments into a set of pragmatic interventions.
The broad objective of this programme was to enhance the knowledge-base of the policy makers about the conceptual and methodological approaches to realizing the SDGs and provide practical knowledge to participants to achieve the targets through project implementation. More specifically, it would provide the participants with a comprehensive knowledge about all project related documents used by the Government of Bangladesh such as relevant project management tools, rational for undertaking a project, problem analysis (problem tree), objective tree, and logical framework analysis, financial and social/environment impact assessment tools, deal with approval procedure and develop a revision mechanism along with a monitoring and evaluation system, and address challenges at the implementation stage of the project.
Dr. Shanawez Hossain, Research Fellow of BIGD chaired the event. Professor Shamsul Alam, Member (Senior Secretary), General Economics Division (GED), Ministry of Planning attended the event as the Chief Guest. Mr. Fakrul Ahsan, Project Manager, Support to Sustainable and Inclusive Planning (SSIP) and Mr. Naquib bin Mahbub, Chief, GED & NPD, SSIP, attended the event as Special Guests.